LINDA JOHNSON-BELL 

• Wine critic, author, judge and journalist
• Co-owner Portobello Gold pub, restaurant and hotel, Notting Hill, London

PUBLISHED BOOKS

The Wine Collectors' Handbook, Lyons & Burford, New York, 1997
The Home Cellar Guide, Cassell, London 1999
Pairing Wine and Food, Burford Books, New Jersey, 1999
Good Food Fine Wine, Cassell, London, 2000
French (Chantecler) and Dutch editions
Wine Tours of the World (Alsace chapter), New Holland, London 2002

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

CWW - British Circle of Wine Writers
FIJEV - la Federation International des Journalistes et Ecrivains du Vin, Paris
The Authors' Guild - New York
The Society of Authors - London
British MENSA
Women in Film and Television
Women of Wine, London
The Law Society, London

AWARDS (wine-writing only)

1998 Whyte & Mackay Scotch Whiskey Blending
1997 Prix Louis Marinier, Bordeaux,  "Mille et un petits chateaux"

JURY MEMBER

Challenge International du Vin, Blaye & Bourg, Bordeaux, France
Concorso Enologico Internazionale, Vinitaly, Verona, Italy
Concorso Internationale Emozioni dal Mondo, Bergamo, Italy
Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, Belgium
English Wine Competition, UK
La Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin, Bourgogne, France
Mundus Vini, Neustadt, Germany

FREE-LANCE CONTRIBUTIONS

Currently wine writer for Taste Italia! Magazine
Previously:  WINE (UK), The Henley Standard (UK), Decanter (UK), Vintage International, Wine & Spirit (UK), London Portrait, Drinks (US), The European Newspaper (Paris), Pariscene, Boulevard (Paris) and others...

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Vintage International Magazine UK (Editor and Publishing Director), Paris, London
Paris Passion Magazine (Time Out), Paris
Visuel International, Paris (Boulogne-Billancourt)
Boulevard Magazine, Paris
BBDO / Tracey-Locke Advertising, Los Angeles
Hughes Hubbard Reed law firm, Los Angeles

EDUCATION

Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes (OXILP)

CPE / Graduate Diploma in Law from Oxford Brookes University, Oxford

Rotary Graduate Fellowship from Université de Nice, France

Certificate de langue et civilisation française from Université de Paris IV, la Sorbonne, Paris, France

Diplôme du Programme International from L'Institut des Etudes Politiques de Paris (SciencesPo), Paris, France

B.A. International Relations from Scripps College, Claremont Colleges, Los Angeles, California

Scottsdale Arcadia High School, Phoenix, Arizona